Victor Borgemoen
of Curtiss, Wisconsin, is in the Neillsville hospital, recovering from an
encounter with a hostile bull. He has abrasions on the left side,
front and back, where he was scraped by the bull’s horns. He
was given a bad shaking up when the bull tossed him. Thrown against
a fence, he gathered up a long and painful sliver on the outer side
of his right hand, and a gash on the fleshy side of the right
hand.

Mr. Borgemoen was
working at the Neillsville stockyard late Monday afternoon. He was
loading a truck, working with Allen Stanley. He went back into the
yards to get a Guernsey bull; had a rope on the bull and was
starting to lead him out of the pen and toward the center lane.

The bull had other
ideas. He suddenly lunged at Mr. Borgemoen and tossed him into the
air. What happened after that has been told by Mr. Borgemoen, but
he was on the receiving end and the story was not entirely
coherent. He thinks the bull tossed him twice. Then the bull caught
him on the left side, with one horn at his back and another in
front, and shoved him hard against the fence and along it. It was
at this point that he gathered up the big sliver and the gash in
his right hand.

Mr. Borgemoen was
dazed, but he regained his senses sufficiently to see that bull
standing over him and glaring at him. He was on the west side of
the pen, and so was the bull. His first impulse was to get away
from there. Wounded as he was, he dragged himself across the rough
and dirty pen to the fence along the east side, and climbed up the
fence to the top rail.

Meanwhile, as soon
as he realized his danger, Victor gave terrified shouts. First to
heed was Allen Stanley, working in the truck. The cries were loud
enough to bring from the Farmers Union on the run Ervin Holub. When
they reached the scene, Borgemoen had reached the east fence and
was climbing it.

The two men
secured the bull and rushed Borgemoen away for surgical attendance
and hospitalization.